Tag: Yorgos Lanthimos
2025: A (Mostly) Lackluster Year in Film in Pretty Much Every Way Possible
Looking back at 2025, there were many lackluster elements about it (almost as many as there were “what the fuck?” elements). But most noticeably when [Read More…]
“When Will They Ever Learn?”: Bugonia Is Mercilessly Unsympathetic Toward Humankind (And It’s Deserved)
To many, Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest film, Bugonia (a remake of Jang Joon-hwan’s 2003 movie, Save the Green Planet!), will come across as being “preachy.” To be sure, there’s [Read More…]
Kinds of Kindness Is More Than Kind of Fucked Up (In All the Best Possible Ways)
For those who only just got acquainted with Yorgos Lanthimos because of his star turn at the Academy Awards this year for Poor Things, it [Read More…]
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: Poor Things
When a story has the kind of impact that Frankenstein did—and then enters the public domain—the oversaturation of that narrative can automatically offput an audience. [Read More…]
Nepotism Equals Schism: The Favourite
“If you look like a badger, I’m going to tell you that you look like a badger because that’s what love is.” If that’s really [Read More…]
The Best Movies of 2017 (For Real!)
In a year that saw the movie industry crumble as it once knew itself under the weight of sexual assault accusations as heavy as Harvey [Read More…]
The Lobster: A Boiling Romance
The somehow not so far-fetched concept of Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster centers on the love-oriented travails of David (Colin Farrell), a man whose wife falls [Read More…]
